wrot
/rɒt
/noun [mass noun]
Timber with one or more surfaces planed smooth.The designer has a choice whether to use sawn or wrot timber for the joists and beams...
- The formwork timber may be rough, or wrot, to give a finished surface to the underside of the concrete floor slab.
- The timber used for the boards should be sawn not wrot.
Origin
1930s: alteration of wrought.
- rock blackfish
- rock bolt
- rock bolting
- rock borer
- rock-boring
- rock-bottom
- rock bottom
- rock-bound
- rock brake
- rockbridgeite
- rock-builder
- rock-built
- rock bun
- rock bunting
- rockburst
- rock cake
- rock candy
- rock candytuft
- rock cantaloup
- rock cavy
- rock chestnut oak
- rock chick
- rock chopper
- rockchuck
- rock-climb